People in Datang have been expelled from school

Chapter 1047 The Heterogeneous Jingyang

Li Shimin looked at the secret report sent from Jingyang, on which there was a drawing of a water pump, and after looking at it for a long time, he asked in a low voice, "Can this thing really pump out water?"

Wang Ding nodded and said, "It is indeed possible."

Li Shimin frowned and said, "What are they doing this for?"

Wang Ding said in a low voice: "According to Li Zheng, the research conducted by Jingyang Academy's research institute starts with improving people's livelihood, and this pump is beneficial to people's livelihood."

In many cases, people have to carry water from far away places in order to obtain water sources.

When marching and fighting, I often worried about water sources.

Li Shimin smiled helplessly, "I have such wisdom but I can't use it."

Wang Ding took out another secret report and said, "This is a secret report from Liaodong."

The most worrying thing now is Niu Jinda's entry into Goguryeo.

Although Jingyang made such a bizarre thing, after all, it has nothing to do with the grand plan of the court.

Li Zheng was looking at the map at home, while Chu Suiliang and Li Tai were talking about the academy.

Chu Suiliang said: "The master of the academy can choose from the academy, but the child is still too young."

Li Tai said: "Let's not talk about whether the child is too young, but right now there are only four or five teachers out of hundreds of students, which is obviously not enough."

Li Zheng looked at the map and said: "Let the children form a group of more than a dozen people, and let the students with good academic performance and senior students bring the new students."

Li Tai and Chu Suiliang glanced at each other. It was the first time they had heard the new term study group, but after listening to Li Zheng's description, the two of them were enlightened, and soon they had an idea.

This can indeed reduce the pressure on the wife.

Chu Suiliang thought about it and said, "In this way, the pressure on the master can indeed be reduced."

Li Tai said in a low voice: "Jingyang Academy has always had a tradition of assigning homework. It can assign corresponding homework to the study group and give certain rewards."

The two hit it off and quickly reached a consensus.

Now the troubles are also solved.

Seeing that Li Zheng kept looking at the map, Li Tai asked curiously, "What are you looking at the map for?"

Li Zheng said: "The academy's research institute has made water pumps. Although we don't lack water in Jingyang, having a water pump is just icing on the cake. There are still many places in the Central Plains that lack water sources."

Chu Suiliang said: "It was also difficult to get water in the village when I was a child. The water that the family needed to drink often had to walk for an hour to the river to get water. Counting carrying water back and forth, I was half exhausted."

Li Zheng marked several places and said: "It is especially difficult to get water in the northwest area. You can sell the pumps there."

Hearing that Li was about to sell water pumps, Li Tai frowned and said, "How much do you plan to sell?"

Li Zheng thought for a while and said, "The cost of the water pump is not high. The main cost is the cast iron cost of tens of renminbi, which is less than half of the labor cost."

Chu Suiliang said: "Small half of the money is not a small expense."

Li Tai thought about the scarcity of salt and iron in the Tang Dynasty, and the cost of cast iron was indeed so high. Besides, rare items like water pumps could be sold for tens of dollars.

Li Zheng only sells for a small amount of money, which is already very beneficial to people's livelihood.

Li Tai was also very worried that Li Zhenghui would seize the technology of the water pump and steal it by stealth.

Right now, it seemed that Li Zheng didn't have such thoughts.

It also made Li Tai heave a sigh of relief.

Li Zheng said in a low voice: "The installation cost can be saved, because the installation of the water pump is very simple, only the production and cost, and the transportation cost can also be avoided. Anyone who wants to buy it can come to Chang'an to buy it directly."

Li Tai said in a low voice: "If this water pump can benefit the Central Plains, I think I should give you a big gift from my father."

"That's not necessary." Li Zheng waved his hand and said: "The manufacture of water pumps is not very difficult. After our water pumps in Jingyang are released, outside craftsmen can easily imitate them, and this technology will soon spread to many places. Water pumps will not be profitable, but will soon spread to every household."

Daniel is the head of the research institute. Li Tai also saw the design drawing of the water pump when he was doing the experiment.

Li Tai wondered: "I doubt that Daniel knew how to make this water pump a long time ago, and it only took three days from theory to experiment to design and manufacture."

Chu Suiliang added: "Recently, Da Niu has been dumping some crops again, saying that he can make food without soil, which is simply a fantasy."

The two of them no longer have much doubt about the matter of the master.

Seeing that Li Zheng was still looking at the map, Chu Suiliang and Li Tai saw that their current wife problem had been solved, so they had no choice but to go back to the academy first.

On the way back to the village, Li Tai looked at the villagers coming and going and said, "Do you think Jingyang Village is different from the outside?"

Chu Suiliang smiled and said, "Why did His Highness King Wei say that?"

Li Tai thought about it and said: "Look at the villagers in other places, they may not be able to read or even understand the words, and even the children in other places may have been working in the fields long ago."

Listening to Li Tai's narration, Chu Suiliang was very curious about what Li Tai was going to say.

Li Tai said again: "But look at Jingyang. Now the old farmers in Jingyang can read some books, and the children in Jingyang who are less than ten years old have started to learn mathematics. From the time when the children led the adults to study together, so that the whole of Jingyang is out of place with Guanzhong. Even some women in Jingyang are more comfortable with things like settling accounts."

Chu Suiliang laughed silently: "It's really a bystander. I didn't notice this change when I was in it, but His Royal Highness Wei Wang saw it through."

Li Tai said, "Do you think this change is good?"

Chu Suiliang said: "The whole Jingyang is full of knowledge."

Li Tai said: "Such Jingyang is certainly good, but it is also what I am most worried about."

Chu Suiliang looked at Li Tai in puzzlement.

Li Tai said: "When everyone is in chaos, the few who are sober will be regarded as aliens. They will use all means to exclude aliens, and make the environment the same as them, so that everyone will be in chaos."

Hearing this, Chu Suiliang was also silent.

Li Tai said again: "Maybe my worries are superfluous, I'm just thinking wildly."

Unknowingly, during the conversation, the two had already walked to the academy.

Li Zheng handed over the design drawing of the water pump to Xu Jingzong, "Give this to the road construction engineering team, and let them install water pumps for the villages along the road."

Xu Jingzong also knew that there was a magical water pump in the village of Jingyang.

Seeing Li Zheng handing over such an important blueprint to himself, Xu Jingzong quickly waved his hand and said, "It's not good for outsiders to see this thing."

Li Zheng said: "It's not difficult to make this thing, maybe it will spread throughout the Central Plains soon."

(End of this chapter)